{"id":725017,"date":"2026-06-25T11:20:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T11:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/725017\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T11:20:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T11:20:12","slug":"novak-djokovic-withdraws-from-pre-wimbledon-exhibition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/725017\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak Djokovic Withdraws From Pre-Wimbledon Exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Giorgio<\/p>\n

LONDON, ENGLAND – JUNE 29: Novak Djokovic of Serbia plays in his match with Frances Tiafoe of USA at The Hurlingham Club on June 29, 2023 in London, England. (Photo by Julian Finney\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

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Novak Djokovic has made an annual habit of playing in the pre-Wimbledon exhibition known as the Giorgio Armani Tennis Classic in London.<\/p>\n

But the 24-time Grand Slam champion withdrew without explanation ahead of Wednesday\u2019s event.<\/p>\n

Djokovic was set to face Russian Karen Khachanov who instead lost to American Martin Damm.<\/p>\n

World No.1. Jannik Sinner beat Britain\u2019s Cam Norrie in the first match.<\/p>\n

Djokovic, 39, is the No. 7 seed at Wimbledon, with the draw set for Friday.<\/p>\n

He has not played since losing to Joao Fonseca<\/a> in the third round of Roland Garros.<\/p>\n

Sinner enters Wimbledon as a massive favorite to defend his title (-225) with Djokovic (+400) and Roland Garros champ Alexander Zverev third (+800).<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s no doubt who the favorite is, it\u2019s Sinner,\u201d Patrick McEnroe said on a recent ESPN call with reporters. “He’s the clear favorite. I would put probably Djokovic at the moment as the second favorite. I thought he played pretty well in Paris, even though he lost early. I thought he played three quality matches. That’s going to give him confidence.<\/p>\n

“Zverev I would not put as a favorite. I would put [Taylor] Fritz ahead of him. Fritz just beat him in a close match. I would probably put [Ben] Shelton slightly ahead of him.<\/p>\n

“Other than that, as favorites go, it\u2019s hard to find. “<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONDON, ENGLAND – JUNE 29: Novak Djokovic of Serbia plays in his match with Frances Tiafoe of USA…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":725018,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-725017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=725017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/725018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=725017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=725017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=725017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}